Spring Flower Counting Cards for Toddlers

These flower counting cards are quick to make but packed with learning! And kid-approved! 

I love simple and hands-on math games for toddlers and preschoolers, like our counting with pom-poms activity or our ping pong ball counting game.  These beginning math games are fun for that toddler or preschooler in your life but also teaches them numbers, patterns, and even the beginning critical thinking skills they will need for later math skills.

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Flower Counting Cards for Beginning Math

My favorite part of these flower counting cards was that it was very quick and simple to put together.  It took me less than five minutes and everything I used I had on hand or came from the Dollar Tree.

What You Need:

• Index cards
• Crayon
• Tape
• Plastic flower table decorations (Dollar Tree find, but I’ve seen similar ones at large craft stores)
• Laminator

It’s a pretty simple kids activity to throw together. Just write each number out on an index card and create however many flower stems you need to match the number on each card.  I used a green crayon to color my stems onto the index cards. 

If you’re just working with your toddlers on just numbers 1 through 5, then you don’t have to laminate them. The bigger numbers I did because I was combining index cards. I do recommend that you laminate them because they last much longer in my experience.

For the bigger numbers, like 6 through 10, I used multiple index cards because I needed more space to fit the flowers on.  To do this I would tape two cards together, side by side, draw on them and then laminate. It was pretty easy and worked out great. You can also stagger the height of the stems, making taller ones and shorter ones. This enables the kids to fit a higher number of flowers on each card. 

I started my girls on one through five to get them familiar with the counters but once they got familiar with it I added six through ten.

There are more possibilities with this than just counting too. My daughter and the daycare kids spent a long time not only playing with this as a Montessori inspired counting set but also adding and sorting. They would sort the flowers by color and see which color had the most or the least.

My preschoolers even used these for some simple beginning math. They would take two cards, add the flowers, and then add the two sets together. 

Give it a try! It’s super easy and fun! 

Do you have some math games for toddlers that use?

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